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This word, though generally directory only, will be taken as mandatory if the context requires it. Life Ass’n v. St Louis County Assessors, 49 Mo. 518.

1. An allowance made by the United States government to one of its dip- lomatic representatives going abroad, for the expense of his equipment 2. This term, in its original use, as

L. Fr. Equal.

Equality. This word is used in law in several compound phrases, as fol- lows: 1. Owelty of partition is a sum of money paid by one of two coparceners or cotenants to

In old English law. Scolds or unquiet women, punished with the cucking-stool.

Lewd; impure; indecent; calculated to shock the moral sense of man by a disregard of chastity or modesty. Tim- inous v. U. S., 85 Fed. 205, 30 C. C. A. 74 ;

(Offered himself.) In old practice. The emphatic words of entry on the record where one party offered himself in court against the other, and the latter did not appear. 1 Reeve, Eng.

In old Scotch law.A name of dignity; a freeholder. Skene de Verb. Sign.

“Office” is defined to be a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, whether public, as those of magistrates, or private, as

A code of maritime laws published at the island of Oleron in the twelfth century by Eleanor of Gui- enne. They were adopted in England successively under Richard I., Henry III., and

Filed; entered or placed upon the files; existing aud remaining upon or among the proper files. Slosson v. Hall, 17 Minn. 95 (Gil. 71); Snider v. Methvin, 60 Tex. 487.

v. To render accessible, visible, or available; to submit or subject to examina- tion, inquiry, or review, by the removal of restrictions or impediments.

A public officer who unlawfully uses his authority by way of oppres- sion, (q. v.)

To institute or establish; to make an ordinance; to enact a constitution or law. Kepuer v. Comm., 40 Pa. 124; U. S. v. Smith, 4 N. J. Law, 38.

In old English law. Those of the religious who deserted their houses, and, throwing off the habits, renounced their particular order in eon- tempt of their oath and other obligations. 1’aroeli. Antiq.

The claws of a dog’s foot. Kitch.

The twelfth part; the twelfth part of a pound troy or the sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois.

Any house necessary for the purposes of life, in which the owner does not make his constant or principal residence, is an outhouse. State v. O’Brien, 2 Root (Conn.) 516. A smaller

In old English law. Equality.

Something unpaid. A debt, for example, is owing while it is unpaid, aud whether it be due or not. Coquard v. Bank of Kansas City, 12 Mo. App. 261; Mus- selman v.